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...rushed through a major styling change to keep pace with competitors. The familiar "silver streak" hood stripes have been dropped in favor of an uncluttered hood; both grille and tailfins are new; the body is 3½ in. lower and packs a larger engine with a 43-h.p. boost to 270 h.p. in the bigger V-8 engine...
Steelmen are in a good position to boost prices. With furnaces operating at better than 100% of capacity, they have more orders on their books than they can handle. Detroit's automakers alone will need enough steel to build an estimated 6,500,000 new cars in 1957, are already cranking up to top production speed. After a two-month lull for model changeover, the auto industry is working overtime to build 38 new cars each minute, plans to work overtime and Saturdays throughout November and December to keep pace with optimistic forecasts of fourth-quarter business...
There is a pattern of price increases in other industries. With increasingly severe railroad car shortages, the freight industry announced that it wants a 20% package boost in freight rates, will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval in mid-January. Price boosts in other industries pushed the cost of living in September up another .3% to an all-time record 117.1% on the Labor Departments 1947-49 index of consumer prices...
Widespread complaints against "despicable and inexperienced" tutors had started a movement even before Kirkland's time to replace tutorial instruction with that of professors on endowed chairs. Kirkland gave this movement a big boost by setting up 15 new professorships. He also helped eliminate some of the inbred nature of the Harvard faculty by sending various tutors abroad to study...
...although the attempt to influence internal politics is transparent, some elements of the press have succeeded in masking the Soviet intent. They conclude that Bulganin was trying to boost Governor Stevenson's candidacy by making it appear that Eisenhower is the only obstacle to ending tests and harmful radiation...